Tag: science fiction

Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Oppression, Freedom, and How Imaginative Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible

Read Maria Popova’s piece at Brainpickings.com.

Le Guin refers to the words of onetime slave and poet Phillis Wheatley: “In every human Breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”

Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's book The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin’s book The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

The Journey Behind Wong Fu Productions’ “Everything Before Us”

LINK: Phillip Wang, Wesley Chan and Ted Fu’s romantic sci-fi movie with Asian-American protagonists

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Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Also: Ken Liu’s long-anticipated The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

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Controversial dystopian film “Ten Years” officially released online

Award-winning, persecuted, Hong Kong sci-fi will be available on Google Play today

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Mr Robot & the Highly Sensitive: Elliot’s Complicated HSP Life

LINK: Does the hacker have the mindset of the highly sensitive person?

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Native Americans Battle to Save Mars in New Sci-Fi Graphic Novel

LINK: Read an excerpt from RED EDEN at www.marsrededen.com

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